Browne — 17/^ Ethnography of Ganimna and Lettermnllcn. 257 



of this class, the proportion in Garumna is about the same or 

 a little less. 



There is scarcely any furniture in these houses, A couple of chests, 

 one or two small benches, and a rough table, perhaps a rude dresser 

 knocked together from a fevr boards, and containing a few jugs and 

 cups of rude delft, are all that can be^called furniture. In houses 

 of this class there is in very many cases no bed,^ a litter of dried 

 bracken, and some tattered blankets laid on some boards, or on the 

 floor, takes its place. In some cases the bedstead is a pile of stones. 





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Cabin in (jarumna. 



or the wooden frame of the bed is supported on stones at both ends. 

 In two houses visited banks of stones had been built up to form seats. 

 A pot, a tub, some baskets, a tin lamp and a few mugs form the 

 domestic utensils. The only Tentilation at night is through the 

 clinks in the stones around the badly fitting door frame. 



A better class of house consists of a kitchen, off which are one or 

 two sleeping-rooms formed by partition -walls about 7 feet in height, 

 and covered in by a few beams and boards to form a loft in which to 



^ Of ten houses visited in the village of Creggs in Lettermulleu only <«o had 

 bedsteads of any sort (23rd August, 189S). 



